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Monday, August 3, 2009

It's time for Where in the West again! For the August 2009 version of WITW, we have the above unknown area located somewhere in the west - that would be somewhere in the western part of North America. The two photos show a mountain, seen from both the north and the south. I'll leave you excellent geologists, geographers, and other players to determine north v. south from slope aspect effect: these photos were taken within a day of each other.

Where is this mountain, what is its name, and why would I bother to take a picture of it (other than that I seem to take pictures of everything - no fair using that as a reason!). Another good question to consider: is this mountain an example of an erosional, depositional, or tectonic landform?

7 comments:

Looks like Broken Top in central Oregon. If it is, the answer to answer to the closing question would be "yes." Tectonics led to the volcanism that created the magma, then lava that erupted to construct the the peak, then it has been modified, particularly by glaciation on the north face- I've been up into that cirque!

Wow, that was fast, less than an hour. Lockwood wins! And I think your answer including all three types of landforms is great, although strictly speaking it's probably not a tectonic landform, definitely had a tectonic cause, however (subduction).

Ron, on Google Earth, the road is called the Cascade Lakes Highway, which is the road that goes just north of Mt. Bachelor. It leaves the SW part of Bend as SW Century Drive (per Google Earth). 44 degrees 0.250 minutes N; 121 degrees 40.060 minutes W - there is a large, rocky clearing on the right side of the road just a little past the NE slope of Mt. Bachelor, with a nearly due north view of the south side of the mountain.

If you've got 4WD, a forest service road or track takes off about 1.5 miles past the clearing. Don't know about views from that road or how good it is. It starts in the trees.